Hulne Park

Hulne Park is the only one remaining of the three parks that once surrounded Alnwick Castle in Northumberland, providing wood and meat for the Percy family, the Dukes of Northumberland.

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Places of Interest

Highlights include Brizlee Tower and Alnwick Abbey.

Brizlee Tower

Tower

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Brizlee Tower is a Grade I listed folly set atop a hill in Hulne Park, the walled home park of the Duke of Northumberland in Alnwick, Northumberland. The tower was erected in 1781 for Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, and commands extensive views over North Northumberland and the Borders.

Alnwick Abbey

Building

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Alnwick Abbey was founded as a Premonstratensian monastery in 1147 by Eustace fitz John near Alnwick, England, as a daughter house of Newhouse Abbey in Lincolnshire.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hulne Priory and Abberwick.

Hulne Priory

Locality

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Hulne Priory, Hulne Friary or Hulne Abbey was a friary founded in 1240 by the Carmelites or 'Whitefriars'. It is said that the Northumberland site, quite close to Alnwick, was chosen for some slight resemblance to Mount Carmel where the order originated.

Abberwick

Locality

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Abberwick is a hamlet near the River Aln, in the civil parish of Edlingham, in the English county of Northumberland. Abberwick is situated 2 miles west of Hulne Park.

Denwick

Village

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Denwick is a small village and civil parish in Northumberland, located about 1.4 miles north-east of Alnwick. Denwick is situated 3 miles east of Hulne Park.

Hulne Park

Type: Estate
Description: park in Northumberland, United Kingdom
Categories: park and agriculture
Location: Alnwick, Northumberland, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

55.41667° or 55° 25′ north

Longitude

-1.75° or 1° 45′ west

Elevation

604 feet (184 metres)

Open location code

9C7WC782+M2

GeoNames ID

2646441

Wikidata ID

Q5936207

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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Danish—“Hulne Park” goes by many names.

Chinese: “休恩公園”
Danish: “Hulne Park”

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